Sentence examples for spark reading from inspiring English sources

Muriel Spark, reading from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Harold Pinterr, soon after a major operation, filled with anti-war fervour; the crossword maestro Araucaria, explaining the devilry of his art; the night the power failed, but a prize-giving went on regardless.

It feels apt, then, to hear Spark read about her blackly absurd experiences, in postwar London, as the general secretary of the Poetry Society.

In 1993, Muriel Spark read from her memoir, "Curriculum Vitae," and her novel "The Public Image" at the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center.

The material for "The Public Image," from which Spark read next, had been given to her in a dream the only time, she tells the Y audience, that this happened to her.

The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark, read by Juliet Stevenson, Amelia Fox and Richard E Grant (17½hrs unabridged, Canongate, download only on Audible, £9.33) At last, more than a decade after it came out in print, this glorious collection of 41 stories written between the 1950s and 1990s has finally made it into audio.

The programming constructs available in Spark are reading of data on disk into Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) in-memory and then applying transforms (map, flatMap, filter, reduceByKey, join) and actions (reduce, collect, count) on the RDDs to generate values that can be returned to the application or stored on distributed disk for analysis.

To read Spark is always to read about reading.

The people at Penguin might be overstating things when they insist that their Little Black Classics "sparked a reading revolution".